This is an analysis of the poem On City Sidewalks that begins with:
It is late — so very late at night.
From one Calcutta sidewalk to another, from sidewalk to sidewalk,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcddcacXd eafcecgXbcfcggccg X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,17,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 001110111 01110110010011011 1110111110101001 01111011110100100 1010 011010011010 0111011101011110 1101 11101 01110101101110101010 0101 011110111010 111101010110001001 1101110111 11010110010111010 101101 1101010001011110101 10111101010111010101 11 101110111110011 10110100101 10011111110101 110111010 111111101011001 10011101011111011001 110101110111 011011111110101 1001010111110101 1011110101011101010111 0100100010110110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 547
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sidewalk, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bug, fireflies are repeated).
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